Our Planet Quotes - Page 15

• Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Guilt

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.15, PuddleDancer Press

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• Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane. I've been thinkin' 'bout the meaning of resistance of a world beyond our own and suddenly the infinite and penitent began to look like home.

  Jon Foreman

  Stars, Pain, Home

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• When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal's creation as well a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and our planet's health.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Spiritual, Appreciation

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• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Fighting, People, Water

  "GDP Not Good Enough: The Need for a New Metric for Growth in a Changing World" by Pallavi Roy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2016.

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• In my lifetime, I want to see humanity start being conscious of our waste, the things we buy, and how we can reuse and recycle things. I want people to live harmoniously with our planet. I hope everybody wakes up and appreciates life.

  Jason Mraz

  People, Appreciate, Humanity

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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• And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Climate, Hoaxes

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!

  Roger Penrose

  Dog, Strong, Zoos

  "The Emperor's New Mind". Book by Roger Penrose, 1989.

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• During the Atlantean Cycle, the earth's aura, the invisible astral energy field that surrounds and protects our planet and through which all psychic perception flows, was very pure.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Perception, Energy Fields

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of harmony with nature. At that time, because of the purity of the earth's aura, it was much easier to meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Sublime, Age

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The world today is experiencing a profound and rapid socio-cultural transformation. But the changes do not occur at a uniform pace, and the discrepancies in the change process have differentiated the various countries and regions of our planet.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Country, Profound, Pace

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.

  Paul Watson

  Intelligent, Trying, Planets

  YouTube Channel "DoggyTV"/"Captain Paul Watson introduced by Persia White at Worldfest", www.youtube.com. June 30, 2006.

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• Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

  Annalee Newitz

  Dark, Fiction, Fields

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• As we heal, the Earth Mother feels our joy. We are like cells in and on her body. The power of love, the power of healing, the power of compassion, the power of unity, and the power of knowing are our abilities. These are the gifts our Earth Mother seeks to share with us at this time. Through reconnecting to the celebration of life we are able to let go of our grief and fear. When we Walk in Beauty, we acknowledge every aspect of the Self. The Power Places of our planet are those that have seen the joy of our Earth Mother when her children have grown toward wholeness, celebrating life.

  Jamie Sams

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

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• The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet at an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers, and to assure universal communications and the relaying of radio and television transmissions. Such an arrangement might prove more useful, economically, than the construction of radio relay systems over the whole surface of the earth. The great accuracy of movement of these satellites will provide a reliable basis for solving navigational problems

  Sergei Korolev

  Communication, Space, Movement

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• In a few short years you might have to become a scuba diver and go hundreds of feet underwater - It will be the last refuge of pure aura and power on our planet, the oceans' depths.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Buddhism, Years

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• Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation.

  Sam Smith

  Healing, Leaving, Rebel

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• We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.

  Kimberly Elise

  Needs, Citizens, Elise

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• If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Years, Joy, History Of Life

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.142, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mistake, Evolution, Planets

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• I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars.
  For the first time in my life I had a greater idea of how infinitesimally small our planet really is and, furthermore, how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the vast universe.
  I took a seat on a rock next to Lily and took in the moment to comprehend the vastness of everything else, and the incredible smallness of I.

  Craig Stone

  Stars, Eye, Ideas

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• We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium of new information leading from primal superstition to final exactitude. We know that the sun is hub of our little corner of the universe, and that ties of genealogy connect all living things on our planet, because these theories assemble and explain so much otherwise disparate and unrelated information not because Galileo trained his telescope on the moons of Jupiter or because Darwin took a ride on a Galápagos tortoise.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Moon, Views, Ties

  "Eight Little Piggies". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "A Foot Soldier for Evolution", p. 441, 1993.

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• The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us.

  Janine Benyus

  Answers, Planets

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• It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Understanding, Wilderness, Disappear

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• The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That’s why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.

  Otto Scharmer

  Keys, Data, Our Society

  "From Big Data to Deep Data" by Otto Scharmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself.  The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Healing, Keys, Diversity

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